(b. 14 Oct. 1948, Râmnicu Vâlcea - d. 18 Jan 1999, Rome). Critic, literary historian, specialist in Romanesque philology, translator.
He graduated from the Faculty of Philology of Babeş-Bolyai University in Cluj (1966-1968), then continued in Rome (1968-1972), in the department of Romance languages and literature. From 1973, he was an assistant, then a lecturer, and from 1990, a professor at the Faculty of Letters of the Babeş-Bolyai University, where he founded the Department of Romance Languages and Literature. Former Director of the Accademia di Romania in Rome (1998-1999). Member of the founding group of the cenacle and the magazine Echinox (editor-in-chief, 1973-1983) and director of the magazine Studi Italo-Romeni, founded in 1997. He published articles, books of history and literary criticism, studies of Romanesque philology. He collaborated with Mircea Zaciu and Aurel Sasu at the Romanian Writers' Dictionary. He donated to the Lucian Blaga Central University Library some of the books and documents from his own library.
